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Celine Dion Vows to Fight On Against Stiff-Person Syndrome For Sake of Sons: ‘I Don’t Want Them To Be Scared’

Celine Dion says in tonight's (June 11) one-hour NBC primetime special that she is battling Stiff-Person Syndrome for the sake of her three sons.

Celine Dion was diagnosed with the rare autoimmune and neurological disorder Stiff-Person Syndrome in 2022, six years after she lost the love of her life, husband René Angélil, to throat cancer. Now, in an People magazine cover story, the singer reveals that her three sons with Angélil are the driving force behind her relentless fight against the disease that can cause painful muscle spasms and difficulty breathing and walking. While the symptoms of the chronic disorder began appearing in the mid-2000s, they got progressively worse, until Dion made the announcement in Dec. 2022 that she’d been diagnosed with the incurable ailment that caused her to cancel a planned tour that year.

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